relations between washington and cairo are in for a major test as president morsi is in the us that means growing tension between the two you are well aware you are into american protests. the film here is spread to new states and you're about the first violence is seen in greece while the muslims continue their pricing in the arab states. and uproar in the u.k. over billions spent on foreign aid and huge salaries to british consultants involved

in the program while struggling households at home brace for further benefit accounts and price hike. news from russia and around the world this is the with me thanks for joining us as anti-american sentiment across the arab world gathers pace tension between washington and the largest the regional powers also grown their biggest question mark is over the future of american aid gyptian relations president morsi is first visit to the u.s. for the un general assembly might clarify certain issues and ahead of his trip morsi accused washington or having a biased policy in the region and vowed to demonstrate more independence from the us than his predecessor or his policy or gauges the possibility of that actually happening. mohamed morsi came to power on promises to make could the capital of

palestine and open up egypt's corridor with gaza his presidency promised his supporters a chance to reclaim egypt some pride especially on the international stage one of the curious things is that. have been to egypt since morsi was elected and they congratulated him but morsi didn't rush off to united states he went to china instead and also to iran which was a do. america snubbed you know it it states but the snub it seems more of a token gesture because when angry egyptians took to the streets to protest against the united states the muslim brotherhood kept in the background and president morsi criticism of the u.s. was muted dr saeed sadik a longtime observer of egyptian foreign policy says morsi cannot replace the united states with another world superpower regardless of how much he might want to to change your foreign policy or restructure it's a big process and you need i'll turn it over and the alternative is not i don't see in china for. placement the fact is that for egypt to prosper and solve its

economic problems it still needs washington cairo receives close to two billion u.s. dollars a year in economic and military aid and so two and a half months into his presidency the new muslim brotherhood president is having to maintain an increasingly delicate balancing act his hardline supporters on the one hand the west and washington on the other prompting many observers to ask what if anything has changed since mubarak's era egypt today is not very different than it had been under mubarak egypt u.s. relations during the mubarak era or quite strong the u.s. is an important partner in economic partner for egypt and it would be very difficult for us to any president coming in during the nomic crisis to rock the boat but the recent violent demonstrations the rail talks of a proposed one billion american dollars in debt relief to egypt and although

washington stresses this is merely temporary and there's no major shift in u.s. aid to egypt the relationship between the two countries remains strained this wall was erected several days ago to prevent protesters from which the american embassy on the other side but there is no sign of anyone wanting to take it down a physical reminder of the growing barrier that now exists between cairo and washington. but it's a barrier that neither side wants to make permanent because while morsi might be pulls apart politically from these predecessor on the international front he's trading remarkably close policy r.t. . meanwhile in europe outrage of the us film mocking islam is in golfing new countries first clashes have erupted in the greek capital as police use tear gas and pepper spray to disperse muslim protesters it was then dressed in france where the muslims took to the streets after a french magazine published a caricature is that the prophet mohammad police in paris arrested twenty one

people for defying a ban on protest rallies and reach into the publication of reacting rather to the publication of hundreds of students gathered in tehran to call for the expulsion of the french ambassador from iran and france based journalist robert harness says paris only has itself to blame for falling out of favor with followers of islam. the government as you know very difficult position because of their policy in syria and because of their various inconsistency. is large all french leaders like most european leaders are in the in the nato buying they've committed themselves to nato tied up with nato france under so cozy committed itself more strongly than at any time since general de gaulle to a nato. air is the usual sore stick and carrot from from washington so that there's that aspect of it and also they want to appear to be punching above their weight to use a british expression in international politics because they want to keep their veto

in the united nations so there is no difficulty on the other hand there is a growing feeling in left wing circles that the government's policy is nonsense you cannot support terrorism on monday and condemn it on tuesday and support it again on wednesday they're playing it both ways they don't want to enrage the the people the alleged five million people of muslim backgrounds in france are a lot of people on the other hand. so that line that they allow free speech which of course is our new allowed in from all certain subjects. growing syrian conflict has made many nations in the region fear its repercussions but in neighboring lebanon people are already you feeling about clashes between those supporting armed opposing syria's president assad have become a common sight on the ministries and everything points of the country being dragged into the war a way out is this a confident explains. another day another battle in syria.

it's a war that has taken on increasingly sectarian tones that some fear couldn't gulf neighboring countries it's the state's outside that are more vulnerable the neighbors of syria that could be said to be more vulnerable than syria itself called for gratian and civil war lebanon stands right in the path of the blast waves lebanon fought its own civil war on to tarion lines for fifteen years and now the syrian conflict is literally spilling across its border syrian troops have carried out incursions into lebanese territory while rebels take shelter in lebanese towns it is aggravated unshielded wounds from the past string fears of a new civil war that already has had effect here in lebanon it is polarized the politics of lebanon. it is resulted in conflicts that have taken place in tripoli it is resulted in. skirmishes that have happened in beirut lebanon of course vulnerable to this type of sectarian conflict lebanon

sunni's mainly support syria's rebels including the powerful militant group hezbollah tend to back president bashar al assad and member of the alawite sect lebanon was divided between the groups that support the syrian syrian regime and those people were actually. hoping and cup. allies in going there for what they scald the free syrian army nowhere is that divide more violently visible than in tripoli on the streets of lebanon's second largest city and sunni gunmen have been battling it out this is been a flashpoint for years but the fear is the violence could spiral out of control and spread across the country when we arrived a shaky cease fire was being monitored by the lebanese army but we spoke to fighters on both sides who showed no willingness to disarm. ok. you know this is the leader of

a sunni militia here in tripoli is bubble to ban islam i asked him whether peace with his opponents is possible. as long as assad remains in power there won't be peace in syria lebanon or iraq or powerless done through be no peace while he is in force and neighboring general must send an alawite fighter shows me the destroyed remains of his home when asked to explain the recent fighting with his sunni neighbors this was his response not the dollars just we are defending ourselves against machines of terror and mercenaries who are being brought in from abroad. even the push to defend islam is most unifying figure the prophet muhammad wasn't enough to bridge lebanon's sick tarion divide in beirut separate protests against an anti islam video has turned tens of thousands of shias to the streets days later a hardline sunni cleric who gathered his own supporters in the capital they may have been united in their outrage but protesters carried flags that left no doubt which side of the syrian divide they're on for now lebanon is holding together but

some residents here wonder whether this is just the calm before the storm season is if you guys are going to go. they're going to have their start they can start their careers in the streets here and that. everyone is going to fight like that so it's never going to happen this shelled out building stands in beirut's green line which for nearly two decades divided the city. lebanon's bitter civil war christian communities lived over here to the east muslim communities lived across the street to the west but as the armed conflict in syria continues to escalate just across the border many here in lebanon fear that the fragile peace could yet again be shattered and that sectarian tensions could once again plunge this nation of nearly four million into another civil war for archie i'm lucy catherine else in beirut. this is. the voices in the east china sea heating up as china certains and patrol ships to a group of disputed on and so with. all of the tokyo pleasuring might not be the

only to play as we don't know what washington's role is in the ongoing future. and it's a scandal that's already cost several georgian officials that job is but it's not when they get over the people who remain on the streets demanding all those involved in that release of prisoners be held accountable. the french invasion of russia has started again after two hundred years up at the.

church the emperor napoleon has arrived from overseas to lead the army i have to really take my time to prepare myself to get it right i know. the bloody battle near moscow is going to start over. james brown will reveal the victor the soldiers are back to doing. persian twenty. r.t. . to build a. mission to teach me.

writer if you remove the song from plans to. start on t.v. dot com. welcome . while many households in the u.k. struggle to make the means the government is tightening its grip squeezing out additional cash to meet its international stage it's the british government has now topped the list of generate foreign aid spenders but as a boy her report was the multi-million pound contracts are being signed on the backs of the poor. i'm standing in front of the london headquarters of adam smith

international according to that website they provide consultancy on economic and government reform well the website doesn't say is that one of the number of firms to have profited heavily from the british government's foreign aid budget last year alone the u.k.'s department for international development spent over five hundred million pounds on international projects abroad that's allowed the executives in the company behind me to pocket fix biggest salaries and million pound bonuses britain's hefty foreign aid budget includes an annual spend of two hundred eighty million pounds that goes to india that's despite the fact that india's economy is so successful that they themselves provide two billion pounds worth of international aid each year they even have their own space program now at a time when the coalition government is considering freezing benefits for the most vulnerable in the u.k. society some m.p.'s wondering whether all this taxpayers' money should be spent

they call questionable foreign aid the department for international development has said they're going to stop giving aid to india but that hasn't stopped them building a new office in india this going to be quite shortly spending four hundred thousand pounds of money. now this isn't the kind of spending the taxpayers want to see given the pressure on their own budgets for critics of the u.k.'s substantial foreign aid budget there's more bad news on the way prime minister david cameron is planning on increasing it that means that by the year twenty fourteen the u.k.'s department for international development could be dishing out over fourteen billion pounds a year that's going to mean lucrative contracts the so-called poverty barons that run consultancy firms like the one behind me now in recent days the bank of england has one struggling british households to brace themselves for further price hikes in food and fuel with poverty here in the u.k. predicted to increase over the next eight years many struggling households are

going to be left wondering whether all that money spent abroad on what many call questionable foreign aid might be better used to home. plenty more stories waiting for you on our website home had that the latest. like a token drunk show find out why a double amputee was shown by police gz a danger that never was. drinking for two days and leaving seven people dead the owner of the wheels up in the north that store at all. is. the.

download you. so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch all its all you need is your mobile device to watch are to any toy. almost thirty percent have been arrested in bahrain following a government. that's just days after the authorities promised to improve the treatment of political acts of it so the cross has to hold twenty months ago around one hundred people have been killed their forces have also targeted a key figures like opposition leader job has been jailed for taking part in rallies

and stoking support as it lowers major investigates the response for western nations remains a strange thing due to compared to the deep animosity towards others in every. but i think i also signed on like for the whole world on the nature of this conflict only oppression and brutality of the regime one day no matter how long it takes there will be a day of reckoning for this dreadful regime up in arms about syria and they put their money where their mouth is giving five million pounds in so-called lethal aid to those trying to oust president assad but less than a thousand miles away in bahrain there's another human rights crisis ongoing and on that leaders remain conspicuously start their g.m. has not spared any means of repression torture has not seized at all and that was the one is of people who were just released in the last day or two.

have not stopped. of course the use of sectarianism as. is there well for. more than that is the kidnapping we would not feel people from three or four beat them up tortured them not inside the torture chambers but in farms in what they call the woods houses bahrain is home to a forgotten revolution ignored by the international community under reported in the media since february last year there have been almost daily anti-government protests in the resulting crackdown around a hundred has been killed with sixteen hundred in jail including sixty children and full of bahrain's most prominent human rights activists all that in a country of only one and a half million but the u.k. government says nothing longstanding historical connection between britain and

bahrain which was in fact holland in seventy one certainly the association with the u.s. fifth fleet there is the oil problem and that's the banking problem along this is harmful to our interests because sooner or later all the gulf markets are going to disappear in a puff of smoke and then the regimes that succeed them will not be friendly country which was their oppressors far from being condemned representatives of the bahraini regime have been a common sight at the u.k.'s major events this summer king how much was invited to the queen's diamond jubilee celebrations in may his eldest son visited david cameron at downing street and his youngest son who allegedly sanctioned the torture of dissident bahraini athletes was at the opening of london's indian pit games but it goes further and deeper than that despite the brutal crackdown between july and

september last year the u.k. sold. point two million pounds worth of the bahraini regime shortly after that the u.k.'s most famous military training school accepted a three million pound donation from the king of bahrain and the metropolitan police's former assistant commissioner was appointed an advisor on security to the regime with no objections from the u.k. government bahrain campaigners say it's ruining the government's credibility it's only when they stand up in public and say we oppose this torture we oppose these autocratic regimes and we democracy only then will the british government have any credibility whatsoever at this moment has. the bahraini opposition and their supporters aren't calling for intervention but

they do want the international community to condemn the regime they say is at least as oppressive as the syrian regime that western powers are so desperate to get rid of. r.t. london. tension is escalating between beijing and tokyo in the asia pacific at least two chinese patrol ship so are watching our waters near disputed cluster of islands in the east china sea which japan claims ownership no one lives on the contested land it's believed to be full of natural resources violent protests have been held in both countries the us has played its hand in the conflict as well building up military activity in the region and back in tokyo in the dispute and defense analyst. believes washington's actions could fund the flames of conflict. said the secretary of defense that he fears that there. could be the war between china and he also expressed that the united states is going to support you so that

means that if you. lose hope let's say the charge that would send a force to try to. serve its force a change for. of course charge that tries to follow their measures like try to locate. further so then the united states. of communication and. major regional war leads to. us once you are. taking a look at other news from around the world this hour the leaders of sudan and south of the not an i.p.o. great hope of solving a series of on going on give us the truth signs we need we brought to the borders and oil revenues and april saddam broke away from saddam last year. which killed two million people. threatening sanctions if the latest round of talks doesn't and . the libyan militia group jado revolutionary brigade has

handed over its compound to the government and the country's president has to disband all come under government control widespread anger against the armed groups has increased its assault on the u.s. embassy in benghazi which killed ambassador chris stevens. the leak of a shocking prison obese media in georgia has loved the government squandering to save face but the whirling wave of protests is only gaining momentum. i had a chance to talk to the man who filmed of the jails and he claims the president was entirely aware what was happening in the facility. the public is in fact still so shocked and angry that they're comparing the footage from george and for those with back from guantanamo except it contains suspected terrorists while here we're talking about ordinary georgians in me another factor irritating the public right now is the recent arrest of one of the border nadirs of the student protest movement that he took moody and he was detained on saturday by traffic police

officer we are not abiding to the authorities orders he was put in prison for ten days but it is reported that he wasn't even the time the wheel of the car stopped by the police early our team managed to meet with the man of the started all this released a video of i think to the crowd that we used to be one of the senior staff members of the combat need for that in d.c. police personally shot many of these videos because those are the georgists interior minister should fit he was to the president it was just for fun for no particular reason it was like we do what we want with people one see take you to prison you are nobody you have new dignity this is why these videos cause such treats in georgia all of this is definitely a huge blow to be a mutual you know bodies since to be election to parliament is coming up on the first of october and aborting to be elitist. both president saakashvili and the

ruling party have already lost up to twenty percent of supporters. and time now as a business with a good morning so they sought to form has come to an end what was it like well russia's a top economic of events this sochi forum has ended on saturday and this time the form brought in a number of surprises business parties to meet chain medvedev explains. this year's sochi investment for was different the last one to be held here in the the tourists in the theater and the first one to be led by prime minister medvedev rather than president picks and the tone. was different not so much cherishing of past economic achievements but rather criticism that russia is not becoming more competitive and experts agree the energies just have to be channeled. the energy today is not channeled but i and that's what i'm trying to teach and i'm bringing my associates training people to. my books my tapes and now i have

a consulting firm you hope to make it for the prime minister has ordered by this corruption and inefficient government institutes have led to insufficient competition on the markets placing russia at sixty seven place on the global scale if you have two strong government the dominos then you get the in the in trouble with the things like corruption and inefficiency is. not clear. good sitting around and stuff like that so so personally i like more a system which is which is more driven by market than the government but apparently this will be a difficult task as forums like so to demonstrate just how closely business in states and russia intertwined together like two parts of one mechanism to me a realisation something has to be done is a step in the right direction. and it's time now to check out the equity markets first age or trade is active this hour tokyo's nikkei is shedding value and

concerns of the euro crisis is far from over but the hang saying is managing to stay in the positive territory over the weekend the leaders of germany and france failed to agree on when to start jointly overseeing the region's banking sector and some bad news from china itself according to the latest beige book the recent monetary easing is not working manufacturers and retailers are still cutting jobs and into space and of lower sales over on wall street overnight or actually on friday the u.s. stocks ended mixed both the nasdaq and the dow finished with a changeover around the towns of the percentage with the difference being that the nasdaq boosted games while the dow was below the line crude is the lower this monday despite rising tensions in the middle east to major oil supplier the russian equities ended last week mixed as well the r.t.s. posted gains while the my six was down around two towns of a percent we'll bring you the latest figures as soon as the russian markets reopen to less than two hours time and on the currency markets the euro is weakening to

the dollar this hour the ruble strengthened to both currencies on friday and again will bring in a way this to end two hours legendary investor tim rogers recently said he's interested in buying into the ruble meanwhile sergei grieve from russia's new comics school says it could prove very profitable. and we'll bring you that interview in less than fifteen minutes i'll see them all right i want to thank you very much for that sun's coming up shortly he discusses the current and to emerge in unrest with the start crude there are actually the culprits for him. the.